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national championship last Friday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Mike Rodgers sounded like a man who had signed up for the wrong event. "Long road,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], man,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Rodgers shouted as he stood under a tent near the Hayward Field track in Eugene,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ore. "Knew I'd get there." It was marathon talk, not sprinter speak. But few sprinters have had as delayed a trajectory to success as Rodgers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 24,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who had just earned a trip to the world championships in Berlin in August, grabbing the lead after 30 meters and crossing the line in a wind-aided 9.91 seconds,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a scant hundredth of a second ahead of a charging Darvis Patton.
After he bombed out of the 100 semifinals at the 2007 nationals in Indianapolis, Rodgers-who competed in college for Lindenwood and Oklahoma Baptist-thought he'd run his last race. Even his biological father, Michael Walker,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], had suggested he quit. "He said track wasn't a real sport," recalls Rodgers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who was raised by his stepfather,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Calvin Usery,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an engineer at Boeing.
Rodgers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who had a job at a sporting-goods store in his native St. Louis, figured he'd go back to hawking shoes out of the trunk of his Chevy Malibu. (He estimates he peddled about 600 pairs, buying Air Force 1s in bulk through his job and reselling them.) "They paid my bills," he says. "Nobody believed in me, and I wasn't getting any faster."
But Darryl Woodson, a former coach at Jackson State, ran into Rodgers while waiting in line for a hot dog at the track concession stand in Indy. Woodson had always admired the 5'9",[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 160-pound Rodgers's raw talent,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], even as he had cringed at his poor technique. "He simply did not know how to use his arms," says Woodson,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who had started his own club in Austin. "He was all over the place." Rodgers told Woodson he was done racing. "Give me a few months with you and see if you still feel that way," Woodson replied.
Rodgers moved to Austin later that year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Woodson coaxed him into the weight room to build up his arms. "I'd never lifted anything except gummy bears," Rodgers says. But he gradually noticed an explosiveness and sense of body control he hadn't had before. "It took three months for me to understand that what Coach was telling me was working,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he says.
In February 2008 Rodgers won the national indoor title at 60 meters and then finished fourth at the world indoor championships the following month. He started getting appearance fees from promoters who had refused to give him a lane the year before. And Nike signed him to a four-year contract. Then,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], last month, he won the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene in 9.94,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], beating Jamaica's Asafa Powell,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a former world-record holder.
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